+-

+-User

Welcome, Guest.
Please login or register.
 
 
 

Login with your social network

Forgot your password?

+-Stats ezBlock

Members
Total Members: 953
Latest: Yorksref
New This Month: 21
New This Week: 3
New Today: 0
Stats
Total Posts: 75117
Total Topics: 5528
Most Online Today: 273
Most Online Ever: 17046
(Mon 29 Mar 2021 19:08)
Users Online
Members: 11
Guests: 212
Total: 223

Author Topic: The VAR thread  (Read 69283 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Ashington46

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 831
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Ashington, Northumberland
    • View Profile
  • Referee Level: Retired for years!
Re: The VAR thread
« Reply #105 on: Tue 29 Jan 2019 15:28 »
Clatts says Andre Marriner got it right, both the ruling out of the pen (via VAR obviously) & starting with a drop ball.

Well done, VAR. Referee Andre Marriner awards a penalty, despite it being a perfectly good challenge by defender Ethan Ampadu on Joey Pelupessy.
Marriner, from his angle, thinks Pelupessy plays the ball first and so he points to the spot.
However, as we can see from the television replays, it was in fact a good tackle by Ampadu and therefore not a foul.
This is why VAR is introduced – to prevent these incorrect calls. As for why a drop ball was awarded rather than a corner, the ball was still in play when Marriner blew his whistle to award a penalty.
That means the restart has to be a drop ball. It seems strange, but those are the rules.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6638119/Ethan-Ampadus-tackle-Joey-Pelupessy-VAR-introduced.html 

Blimey, Andre must have thought that it was a spot on penalty to react so quickly that he blew before the ball went out of play, particularly with the speed of the play at that point.  Ah well, you live and learn.
VAR is used to give a correct decision that it was not a penalty, however, the attacker is then penalised because it should have been a corner but the referee gives an uncontested drop ball.
There is something not morally correct about all that, particularly if the game had been played at Hillsborough, because it would have been a penalty ----rightly or wrongly and could have changed the whole game.  The referee has the final decision ----well he used to have!  :(
Referee's decision used to be final!